Suppression Of Collisional Decoherence Of Optically Trapped Atoms
Nir Davidson |
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
High density ensembles of cold atoms can be used as quantum memory devices, but often suffer from a high collision rate that leads to rapid decoherence. We present a new method to suppress this decoherence mechanism using a continuous strong echo pulse, achieving a thirty-fold increase in the coherence time of cold Rb atoms trapped in a dipole trap.